Brilliant film! had a documentary-ish feel but also a slight epic (not big budget or hollywood) cinematic feel. Great sory and told very well.
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When Dieter crashes and runs off through a feild getting shot at all within being minutes into the battle your adrenaline really goes, the film never really stops from there either, its kind of an adventure, but real and disturbing.
When he gets to camp and meets his fellow POW's, I thought that was terrible, the over acting etc. Jeremy Davies's acting was pretty awful in my opinion, only worked for me in his last scene. I get that he spent like a year and a half there but come on...
also the over the top hollywood ending didnt do it for me, should have ended before he got back to base.
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Anyway just some minor preference issues, but it was a fantastic film, even if Herzog did portray some of the characters differently to the real ones.
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While Deiters freind was hacked to bits, Deiter was infact hiding in some bushes and was too weak to help.
Jeremy Davies's character apparantly stayed behing to help one of the asian POW's who was sick, and was a brilliant brave man unlike the one in the film.
Deiter was not the one who shot the captors but infact one of the asian POW's. This is all from Deiter and one of the asians themselves apparantly.
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